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Definitions for: Deficiency [n] lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
[n] the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
Webster (1913) Definition: De*fi"cien*cy, n.; pl. Deficiencies. [See
Deficient.]
The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure;
imperfection; shortcoming; defect. ``A deficiency of blood.''
--Arbuthnot.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his
deficiencies made him the ridicule of his
contemporaries. --Buckle.
Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the
number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum
for curves of the same degree.
Synonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, want
Antonyms: adequacy, sufficiency
See Also: absence, amount, dearth, deficit, demand, exiguity, famine, meagerness, meagreness, mineral deficiency, need, poorness, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortage, shortfall, stringency, tightness
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